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Winged Game, Sauce for

A sauce made from gravy, garlic, peppercorns, lemon juice, salad oil, Seville orange rind, wine, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Winged Game, Sauce for

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, combine the gravy, garlic, peppercorns, lemon juice, salad oil, and Seville orange rind.

  2. Boil the mixture until it is pleasantly flavored, about 15 minutes.

  3. Skim and strain the sauce, then add the wine and salt to taste.

  4. Serve the sauce warm.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Clove + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Garlic + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Clove + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Gravy from cooked birds
Forms the savory base of the sauce and supplies most of its liquid.
Wine
Adds acidity and aromatic depth to the finished sauce.
Lemon juice
Adds brightness and acidity that balances the rich gravy.
Seville orange rind
Contributes aromatic citrus oils that perfume the sauce.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, lemon, orange, wine):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, lemon, orange, wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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